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She had a wrinkled brown face, a lot of tangled grey hair, a few black stumps of teeth, and had been married to him lately by an enterprising young missionary from Bukit Timah. What her appearance might have been once when Jorgenson gave for her three hundred dollars and several brass guns, it was impossible to say.
They had a hold and a claim on King Tom just as many years ago people of that very race had had a hold and a claim on him, Jorgenson. Only Tom was a much bigger man. A very big man. Nevertheless, Jorgenson didn't see why he should escape his own fate Jorgenson's fate to be absorbed, captured, made their own either in failure or in success.
Of all the people on board she alone did not know anything of that conference. In her deep and aimless thinking she had only become aware of the absence of the slightest sound on board the Emma. Not a rustle, not a footfall. The public view of Jorgenson and Jaffir in deep consultation had the effect of taking all wish to move from every man.
Jorgenson, outside the door of Mrs. Travers' part of the deckhouse, waited for the answer. He heard a low cry very much like a moan, the startled sound of pain that may be sometimes heard in sick rooms. But it moved him not at all. He would never have dreamt of opening the door unless told to do so, in which case he would have beheld, with complete indifference, Mrs.
"It isn't for me to talk with great chiefs," Jorgenson returned, cautiously. "But Tengga is a friend," argued the nocturnal messenger. "And by that fire there are other friends your friends, the Rajah Hassim and the lady Immada, who send you their greetings and who expect their eyes to rest on you before sunrise."
"Are you certain it is for his good? Why can't you. . . ." She checked herself. That man was hopeless. He would never tell anything and there was no means of compelling him. He was invulnerable, unapproachable. . . . He was dead. "Just give it to him," mumbled Jorgenson as though pursuing a mere fixed idea. "Just slip it quietly into his hand. He will understand." "What is it?
There was a light at the gangway. Was he on deck?" "No. In the boat." "Already? Could I have been heard in the boat down there? You say the whole ship heard me and I don't care. But could he hear me?" "Was it Tom you were after?" said Jorgenson in the tone of a negligent remark. "Can't you answer me?" she cried, angrily. "Tom was busy. No child's play.
Advice, warning, signal for action?" "It may be anything," uttered Jorgenson, morosely, but as it were in a mollified tone. "It's meant for his good." "Oh, if I only could trust that man!" mused Mrs. Travers, half aloud. Jorgenson's slight noise in the throat might have been taken for an expression of sympathy. But he remained silent. "Really, this is most extraordinary!" cried Mrs.
Lingard lived through those days in the Settlement and was thankful to Jorgenson; only as he lived not from day to day but from sentence to sentence of the writing, there was an effect of bewildering rapidity in the succession of events that made him grunt with surprise sometimes or growl "What?" to himself angrily and turn back several lines or a whole page more than once.
"Especially if she carried a blazing torch," muttered Jorgenson in his moustache. He told Jaffir that she was sitting now in the dark, mourning silently in the manner of white women. She had made a great outcry in the morning to be allowed to join the white men on shore. He, Jorgenson, had refused her the canoe. Ever since she had secluded herself in the deckhouse in great distress.
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